Post by cjm on Jul 16, 2015 17:18:01 GMT

Contrary to the image glorified in numberless PBS documentaries and Hollywood movies—and in defiance of racist “gun control” legislation—many black SNCC, NAACP, SCLC, and CORE field organizers carried firearms, while continuing to promote their organizations as “officially” nonviolent. They feared, correctly, that if their biggest donors—Northern white liberals—found out they were armed, the money would dry up.